Canada is experiencing a rapid increase in the aging population. In 2011‚ it was estimated that one in seven Canadians were over the age of 65 years. In 2036‚ this proportion is expected to increase to one in four older adults (Statistics Canada‚ 2011). As the number of older adults increases‚ this will have far reaching effects on society. One of the effects will be an increased need for professionals in all areas of the workforce who have a strong gerontological skills and knowledge in order to
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Why is Culturally Responsive Teaching Important? Culturally responsive teaching is important by its establishment of home and community life within the classrooms instruction. The teacher will utilize the differences and barriers of ethnic groups in their instruction. Their pursuit of creating an atmosphere of unity with interpersonal relations‚ forming students to make reflective decisions pertaining to civilization and becoming a productive member of society. To overcome cultural difference teachers
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The Path of Respiratory Therapy Introduction About a year ago‚ I came home from work one night and walked into the kitchen to where my mother was standing. There was a feeling of uneasiness and the panic began to clench my stomach. She looked so sad‚ so stressed; maybe it was the frizzy hair‚ the bags beneath her eyes‚ the way her back slouched in a low negative curve‚ or her eyes. Her eyes looked at me before she turned them away‚ but in that fragment of a second‚ it’s almost like I could look
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vulnerable population can be a group of people that show factors of an increased chance of their health status becoming poor. This can be that they are lacking access to care and their chance of illness is higher than other patients (Stanhope and Lancaster‚ 2014). In other words‚ vulnerable populations are at risk for poor physical‚ psychological or social health (De Chesnay‚ 2012). One population in particular are adults living in poverty. Vulnerability can occur in any population leading to
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people worry about it. However‚ the population on the earth has hit 6.5 billion. Some people are very worried about the ability of the world to sustain these huge numbers. This essay will examine the problem of overpopulation and suggest some ways of solving the problem. The biggest and major problem is rapid increase in the number of people. If the world population continued to grow at the current rate‚ the earth would not be able to sustain its population and the number of people will decrease
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Having observed inside a kindergarten classroom for a couple of weeks thus far‚ it has already become apparent to me the plethora of diverse needs of the children within a single classroom. Not all students are alike. They differ in how they learn‚ how quickly they pick up and absorb information‚ how they comprehend the meanings of things etc. While meeting these diverse learning needs in a single classroom can be very challenging for a busy teacher‚ it must be done in order for all of the students
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Vulnerable populations Despite efforts and goals in the United States to reduce or eliminate disparities in healthcare by 2010‚ significant disparities‚ including risk factors‚ access to healthcare‚ morbidity‚ and mortality‚ continues in vulnerable populations. For example‚ studies find that Americans living in poverty are much more likely to be in fair or poor health and have disabling conditions‚ and are less likely to have used many types of healthcare. I believe that more effort
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For this book review we read Leading Cross-Culturally: Covenant Relationships for Effective Christian Leadership by Sherwood Lingenfelter. In this book Lingenfelter informs the reader of how to be an effective leader in a multicultural setting. In this book we are able to see multiple ways on how to be an effective leader‚ and are able to learn the dos and the do nots of leading another culture. The reader is able to learn these dos and do nots through different case studies that the author presents
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backgrounds. In my clinic site‚ I am open to see diverse clientele. My site serves a variety of persons having different cultural identifies such as low SES‚ LGBTQ‚ African Americans‚ Caucasians‚ Latinos‚ older adults and people with disability. I am working on demonstrating knowledge‚ awareness and understanding towards diverse clients. The area I need to improve is scientific understanding of contextual factors in treatments and assessment of culturally diverse clients. This semester‚ I am taking the Advanced
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Population expansion created pressures for invasion by commercial enterprises and apartments into lower density residential The leading edge of outward relocation often was led by the affluent into scenic areas In some older neighborhoods‚ concentrations of poor persons have grown‚ so that unemployment‚ poverty‚ crime‚ and inadequate preparation for school sometimes lead to persistent social crises During the 1960s‚ two-thirds of suburban development occurred in a sprawl‚ rather
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